"House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today put the Democrats in charge of Congress on notice that the House GOP will not stop fighting until a comprehensive energy reform bill is signed into law. Boehner’s speech comes a day after House Democrats rejected a bipartisan plan – authored by Reps. John Peterson (R-PA) and Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) – to take the first critical steps toward lower energy costs. Democrats instead passed yet another sham “no energy” bill, continuing Speaker’s Pelosi’s stated purpose of attempting to give vulnerable Democrats political cover by encouraging them to tell their constituents they will vote for real energy reform without actually doing so."
Now the sham bill goes to the Senate where Sen. Mitch McConnell gets to be the hero by killing it. And even if that doesn't work, it is sure to get a veto from President Bush.
Your vacation is over, boys and girls. Time to get to work. And all that really means now is to get yourselves out of the way so Americans can produce their own energy.
Rep. Ben Chandler and Rep. John Yarmuth, both of Kentucky's Dems, voted for the sham.
